Margaret Atwood

Books on prize lists

• The Testaments

  Written in English

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  Booker 2019 · ★ Winner

  The Testaments

  The Testaments

  Margaret Atwood · 80 when first published

  Novel · Speculative, Politics

  AIAI-generated summary:Fifteen years after a handmaid vanished from Gilead's religious dictatorship, three women, the powerful Aunt Lydia, a girl raised inside Gilead and a teenager in Toronto, set down how their lives became entangled with the regime.

• Oryx and Crake

  Written in English

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  Booker 2003 · Shortlist

  Oryx and Crake

  Oryx and Crake

  Margaret Atwood · 64 when first published

  Novel · 378 pages · Speculative

  AIAI-generated summary:A man who calls himself Snowman, perhaps the last human alive, sleeps in a tree and is slowly starving in a ruined world, grieving for his friend Crake and for Oryx, whom both men loved.

• The Blind Assassin

  Written in English

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  Booker 2000 · ★ Winner

  The Blind Assassin

  The Blind Assassin

  Margaret Atwood · 61 when first published

  Novel · 521 pages · Family, Historical

  AIAI-generated summary:In old age, Iris Chase looks back on her privileged Ontario childhood and on her younger sister Laura, who drove off a bridge in 1945 and left behind a scandalous novel about two secret lovers.